About setting vehicles on fire during the blockade, the home minister said, “Set your own vehicles on fire first instead of torching others while staging protests and demonstrations.”

He said the public has the right to catch the troublemakers and hand them over to police who are setting public’s vehicles on fire, ruining their businesses and causing sufferings to the common people.

On trial of the war criminals, Mohiuddin said the government has initiated the trial of war criminals and urged the people of the country to remain alert against those trying to thwart it.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Benazir Ahmed said police are these days exercising their less force compared to that in the past.

He said the police did not use any lethal weapons or opened fire in Dhaka city over the last 20 years but lobbed rubber bullets to control the situation.

Benazir also said police are being assaulted inhumanly using political shelter.